Streats, 22 September 2000

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    17 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • Nationl Development Minister Mah Bow Tan: Size matters
    • Article
      Lock icon Smaller flats in future Why so tiny
      237 1 IMPACT: With a population of 5.5 million, which is the projection in the 2001 Concept Plan review, flats may have to be smaller. This is also because the average o household size is expected to fall from four to three. So it is
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    • Article
      Lock icon Bigger population in future Why so many
      209 1 IMPACT: There are concerns that Singapore will be swamped by foreigners because of the Government’s aim to have a population of 5.5 million by a certain date. £do recognise that if we were really targeting to have a population of 5.5 million, then
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon Look who's riding the train
    106 1 Everyone in the train had drawn a little invisible circle around themselves; and appeared to be relishing their few moments of peace and inertia amidst the chaos of early morning rush. And like a bull in the china shop of their reverie, I barged in
    Pic: Franic Lee  -  106 words
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  • Streatsmart pictorial
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      Lock icon On our roads yesterday, and... today?
      193 2 What it should have been (because today is World Car-Free Day) YOU, the public transport user or pedestrian, should be King of the Road today. Not the fat cat in the Mercedes Benz, not the Romeo in the BMW. For today, at least the
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      68 2 HOTLINE 1800-844-5566 FAX *****22 E-MAIL streats@sph.com.sg ADDRESS 82 Genting Lane, News Centre, Level 2 5(*****7) Lookout for these treats inside! Musk Treat a special limite edition CD of Trademark Fun Treat (jet 5 bonus tokens at E-Zone! Fun in St e i f 3 Swatches Daily! I week's morning cab
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  • Streatsmart local
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      Lock icon Murder in Jurong West Body dragged down in bag
      450 3  -  by Winston Chong A MAN saw his neighbour’s body being bundled away in a bag on Wednesday morning. Not only that, but he said he “came within two metres” of the alleged murderer. Now, he is worried because the killer knows
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    • Interchange
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        Lock icon CPF investment: Should it go into property?
        178 3 Background: On Sept 19,The Business Times columnist Lee Han Shih commented that $l4O billion of CPF money 77 per cent of the total is tied up one way or another in the property market, mostly private housing and HDB flats. He was concerned
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Injured man leaves... 300 m blood trail
      164 5 IF YOU'VE been wondering about yesterday morning’s blood trail outside Outram Park MRT, rest assured it’s not the result of a murder or fight. Commuters and shopkeepers were shocked and baffled by the trail, which ran 300 m about the length of Kallang
      Pic: Shin Min Daily News  -  164 words
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      Lock icon This dance safe: SSC
      161 5 STOMP away as much as you like with the Dance Dance Revolution (DDR). The Singapore Sports Council (SSC) declared it safe exercise yesterday. In June the SSC asked 40 Hwa Chong JC students to DDR for three weeks, while their heartbeats and oxygen intake were monitored.
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      84 5 Run for cover before those raindrops hit! Thunderstorms will hit those out and about in the North, East and West But the partly cloudy skies promise no rain in the Central and Southern parts. Don't be so quick to pack that sweater, though, because M temperatures
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    • Just a minute
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        Lock icon From this month
        87 5 If you are aged between 61 and 69 and have received the Medishield application form from the CPF Board, it means that you could get the insurance coverage free for two years if you apply for it. Need help in filling in the forms? Then get help
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      • Article
        Lock icon Remember...
        64 5 This Sunday is Good Neighbour Day in the US. In Singapore, most of us stay in HDB flats, but a recent HDB survey revealed that only two-thirds of HDB dwellers know five or more people in their neighbourhood. So make use of this Sunday to get to know more
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        Lock icon Check this out..
        52 5 t Head down to the Parco I Bugis Junction Fountain R today and tomorrow at Bpm and be treated to dance performances on I thefountain-turned-I stage to sound effects WL and music. The performance, Water Story Bugis (Phylogenisesl) is presented by the Dance Dimension Project. It's free!
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    • Article
      Lock icon Man gave me extra coupons
      124 6 onekindact Ms Karen Chan Lai Wan, 26, administrative executive: MY husband and I were parking our car when we realised we had no parking coupons. As we were in a hurry to attend an event, I approached another car owner, hoping that he would sell
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    • Article
      Lock icon Making a quick buck cost hawker $30,000
      274 6 Victim went to nearby DBS bank to withdraw the money to buy 4,000 batteries IT was an offer Madam Lim Choon Buay could not refuse. But she ended up losing $30,000 to a gang of three con men instead. Madam Lim, 42, a
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    • news scan
      • Article
        Lock icon Jail for two burglars
        113 6 HE said he needed money for his three-year-old son’s surgery. So, he broke into a shop with his brother-in-law. Low Seng Poh, 21, and his brother-in-law Ding Sai Loong, 17, tried to break into a Woodlands Ave 6 shop at 3am on Sept 12. They set
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      • Article
        Lock icon Engineer scalded to death
        103 6 SENIOR engineer Lim Kim Soon, 50, died after being scalded at his workplace. Mr Lim and two colleagues were inspecting a “stabiliser” at Asahi Techno Vision at Tuas Ave 1 on Sept 15,12.14 pm when an object fell into a tank filled with hot water. The
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      Lock icon Downtown dash – without whew
      673 8 Downtown dash without whew Why celebrities don't take public transport/ Page 19 THE timing couldn’t have been better. Just as I stepped into the MRT next to her, she had flipped to the page where my photo byline grinned awkwardly up at her I shot her what I hoped was
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      Lock icon China, WTO and S E Asia
      159 8 betweenthelines. Sh resounding vote by the US Senate to normalise trade relations with China adds the finishing touch to what must be one of the Clinton administration's greatest foreign policy achievments: bringing China into the global trading system.... China's imminent entry to the WTO
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  • Streatsmart regional
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      Lock icon Military operation against Abu Sayyaf US hostage: End attack
      277 10 Reuters Hundreds of Philippine soldiers have been killed, say an Abu Sayyaf spokesman ZAMBOANGA A Philippine radio station yesterday broadcast a message from a US hostage held by rebels, the first sign he was alive since the military launched an assault
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    • Article
      Lock icon Be humble, Dr M tells Western media
      194 10 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad yesterday told the Western media to learn some humility in covering developing countries. Opening a two-day media conference, Dr Mahathir urged Western journalists to examine their principles and look beyond making money.
      -AFP  -  194 words
    • Article
      Lock icon Many graft executions expected
      108 10 Reuters BEIJING China will hand out many death sentences in its largest corruption case since 1949, the China Daily said yesterday. The newspaper said last week’s execution of senior lawmaker Cheng Kejie for bribery showed China was targeting both “tigers and flies”. Beijing’s pledge of no
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    • know or not
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        Lock icon Dogs aren't totally colour blind
        46 10 Dogs don't see only in black and white, although they are less sensitive to colours than we are. Instead of seeing the full spectrum of colours that we do, dogs cannot differentiate green from red, nor green from yellow or orange.
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      • Article
        Lock icon The luck in 'potluck'
        61 10 In the Middle Ages, cooks threw all their leftovers into a pot of water that was kept boiling most of the time. This makeshift stew was eaten by the family or fed to strangers when no other food was available. Since food was thrown in at
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        Lock icon Taiwan remembers quake
        99 10 Reuters TAIPEI Temple bells rang while people lit candles and prayed across Taiwan yesterday to mark the first anniversary of a devastating earthquake that killed thousands of people and left 100,000 others homeless. President Chen Shui-bian and Premier Tang Fei joined nearly 1,000 people at a midnight
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        Lock icon Asean help rejected
        98 10 Reuters BANGKOK Myanmar Foreign Minister Win Aung has rejected a proposal for three neighbouring countries to help promote a dialogue between the ruling military and its prodemocracy opposition, the Nation newspaper reported. Asean agreed in July to form a “troika” of three of its members to try
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        Lock icon Panda survival rate low
        113 10 Reuters BEIJING China must learn more about the dietary needs of endangered giant pandas to improve the poor survival rate of those bred in captivity, said a panda expert. Mr Chen Yucun, director of the Fuzhou Giant Panda Research Centre in southeastern China, said that China
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        Lock icon S Korea: North still a threat
        148 10 Reuters SEOUL Despite rapidly warming ties between North and South Korea, little progress has been made in reducing military tension between the erstwhile enemies, said South Korean Defence Minister Cho Seong-tae. Speaking to US Defence Secretary William Cohen and top military officials at an
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  • Streatsmart global
    • web cites
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        Lock icon Civil Engineering 101
        53 11 No need for bricks or sweating under the hot sun. Just report to Tripod.com or Geocities.com, where you'tl be offered 50MB (15MB in Geocities'case) of free space and a host of page building tools to build your own homepage. It will also eliminate the need to learn
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        Lock icon Homemaking 101:
        57 11 So, you already have your little humble abode on the World Wide Web. It's time to spice it up. Grab your trolley and rush over to Freegraphics.com for over 450 graphics links, where you can download free buttons, fonts, wallpaper and animated Gifs. You can even learn how
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    • Article
      Lock icon 'Small missile' attack British spy HQ hit
      181 11 Reuters LONDON A “small missile” was fired at the headquarters of the MI6 foreign intelligence service in central London. Police at the scene of the explosion said it had hit the upper part of the building but caused little damage. There were no
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    • Article
      Lock icon NY judge dismisses $ 147 m Viagra lawsuit
      138 11 NY judge dismisses 147 m Viagra lawsuit Reuters NEWYORK-Ajudge has dismissed a US$B5 million (*****.9 million) Viagra-related lawsuit against Pfizer Inc that alleged the anti-impotency drug caused a 55-year-old antiques dealer to suffer a heart attack. Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Louis York said the conclusion reached by experts for the
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      Lock icon Canadian schools ban gay books
      110 11 Reuters VANCOUVER School chiefs in a Vancouver suburb could bar three books about gay couples from kindergartens, a Canadian court has ruled. British Columbia’s Court of Appeals overturned a lower court’s decision that school trustees had improperly used religion to block the books. The appeals
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    • Article
      Lock icon US lawyer charged with smuggling... Illegals from China
      283 13 Reuters Prosecutors say 6,000 to 7,000 aliens had been smuggled into the US in the sevenyearscheme NEW YORK A lawyer who runs the largest US alien asylum practice was charged in a case involving the mass smuggling of illegal Chinese aliens. Mr
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    • Article
      Lock icon Whitewater: Clintons cleared
      153 13 Reuters WASHINGTON Independent counsel Robert Ray has said that there wasn’t enough evidence to bring criminal charges against US President Bill Clinton and wife Hillary in the Whitewater affair. “The evidence was insufficient to prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that either (the) president or
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    • Article
      Lock icon Respect the prince's privacy
      55 13 gofigure Daily Telegraph poll (June) Should Prince William be paparazzi fodder? No, say 81 per cent of Britons who say the young Prince should be allowed to retain his privacy and lead a normal life. Only 7 per cent felt the media should be free to
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      Lock icon Gore blasts oil industry 'profiteers'
      159 13 Reuters He also urges Opecto increase oil production SUNNYVALE, California Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore blasted the oil industry for “profiteering”. He also urged Opec to boost production. “(Opec must) raise production and reduce the world oil price,” he said. “Profiteering has caused big oil
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      Lock icon Canada: HIV tests for immigrants
      93 13 Reuters OTTAWA The government of Canada said it was developing a plan to screen and ban any prospective immigrants who test positive for the HIV virus. “I’ve asked my department to develop a plan for routine testing which will include HIV and hepatitis B,” said
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        Lock icon Officials bribed boss
        120 13 ALMATY, Kazakhstan Dozens of corrupt traffic police and customs officials across the ex-Soviet republic of Kazakhstan demanded bribes from the wrong man their boss. Interior Minister Kairbek Suleymenov travelled incognito by truck across the Kazakh steppes to find out for himself the level of corruption motorists face.
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        Lock icon Docs remove live grenade
        115 13 MOSCOW Russian doctors have operated to remove a live grenade from the leg of a soldier wounded in Chechnya. Doctors and nurses performed the surgery clad in body armour and helmets, and draped flak jackets over the patient, who was hit by a grenade-launcher round in
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        Lock icon No drugs on 'drugs' ship
        127 13 MADRID The Spanish government admitted that a raid on a freighter expected to lead to one of the biggest cocaine seizures in European history had produced not a trace of drugs. The raid on Aug 31 was carried out in dramatic style, with 100 investigators
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      • Article
        Lock icon More sex than sports
        95 13 KUWAIT An Islamic politician says Sydney’s Olympic games contain more sex than sports and wants some events banned on Kuwait’s state television. “Some events, especially women’s contests, have flagrant scenes which are unacceptable,” parliamentarian Waleed alTabtabaie said in a complaint addressed to the information ministry and
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  • Streatsmart people
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Accidental hero
      234 15 EVERYONE loves Eric the Eel, the accidental hero who became an instant overnight celebrity for swimming very, very slowly. He thought he might drown when he swam one of the slowest races in Olympic history but Eric Moussambani refused to give up and that is why the world
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      Lock icon Carina 'embarrassed'
      116 15 IT was just a photo session. But it sent veteran Hongkong actress Carina Lau blushing with embarrassment. You see, her hunky partner for the photo session was dressed in nothing except a pair of slippers and a silk sash which barely covered his genitals. This happened during a
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      Lock icon Vivian caught driving without licence
      174 15 LAST year’s Star Search winner Vivian Lai would have continued to drive without a local licence if she hadn't met with an accident last month. She was driving her father’s Mitsubishi sedan when she hit an oncoming taxi as she turned into Kim Yam Road,
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      Lock icon Noriko in Hongkong
      72 15 FANS of popular singer-actress Sakai Noriko, take note. The 28-year-old star of Japanese dramas Heaven's Coins and Under the Same Roof will soon be performing at a concert in Hongkong. That's the closest she's going to get to Singapore. So if you want to catch a glimpse
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  • easy Streats
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      Lock icon Trademark We're good with our mouths
      609 18  -  by ly Yvonne Kwok GERMAN pop band Trademark, the voices behind the sweet ballad, Only Love, don’t sound very sweet right now, over the phone. Our topic: The lousy state of German music. “It’s a big problem in Germany right now. There are lots
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      Lock icon Too stuck-up for public transport?
      758 19  -  by Kwok Jhat was the question posed to celebrities KYM NG Media Works artiste, “in her 30s”, drives a four-month-old Volkswagen Golf GTI Why NOT public trans- port: I like driving even more so now that I’ve got my dream car. It’s also more convenient
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      Lock icon Good Grief, It's Snoopy and Gang
      410 20  -  Topclie, two shoes by Wileen Chang MUCH has been written about theme restaurants, their supposedly overpriced menus and their so-so food. Well, I think Snoopy Place must be one theme restaurant that does not fit that description. For one, the prices here are affordable.
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      • Today's must-see TV...
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          Lock icon HEAVEN AND EARTH
          52 20 10pm,TCS5 One of Oliver Stone’s V works, this movie follows M a Vietnamese woman Ĕ from her peaceful childhood in a peas- I iJ ant village, to the ,W[ subsequent upheavals lUgf of the Vietnam War and her relocation to the US. Stars Tommy Lee Jones, and
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          Lock icon TWO ROBBERS
          71 20 11.35pm,TCS 8 Two robbers are actually two friends, a clerk and his unlikely gangster buddy, who gang up to rob a bank. The clerk needs to settle a $3 million debt with the bank, incurred because of some bad investments, while the gangster (incongruously named Papa) wants to
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          Lock icon SWIMMING: FINALS (LIVE)
          46 20 4pm, Sportscity Another Olympic k favourite. Whether its marvelling at the incredible speed of these water-borne I atheletes or ogling I the male swimmers f with their V-shaped bodies, you can be ~m sure there’s always something to watch in 1r this event.
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          Lock icon WHO'S APING WHO: SOCIAL CLIMBING
          74 20 9pm, National Geographic (SCV 35) It was a toss-up between this or HBO’s Karate Kid 11. And since everyone’s probably heartily sick of Pat Morita and company by now, the social mores of cuddly apes is likely a better option. This episode examines how the
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          Lock icon DR K
          61 20 10pm, VV Entertainment (SCV 56) VV Entertainment continues with its Korean JĔL film festival by bringing you this a mysterious tale of j a neurosurgeon i who possesses I the power to heal I people of terminal 1 diseases. What is the truth behind his j powers and
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      Lock icon T-Pop sensations
      606 21  -  by JAY MING FIRST, The China Dolls had everybody humming along to their a-hook-a-minute choruses. Then came Tae who whipped up a storm with his drop-dead gorgeous looks. The common factor: Both acts hail from Thailand, although they sing in Mandarin. Thailand is virgin territory for Mandarin pop.
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    • easyStreats pick & choose
      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon A treat for the senses
        185 22 Stephanies, weekend BRACE yourselves for a weekend of heightened sensations. Treat those overwrought senses with some of the lushest music and visuals around. Starting with The Cell. If you’re yearning for randy eye-candy, there’s Jennifer Lopez’s infamous twin assets (of the nether region). She plays
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        Lock icon Dig his weed
        122 22 Stephanie Goh writes a weekly column. You can reach her at gohcys@ sph.com.sg IF MIND-BOGGLING visuals are not quite your cup of tea, listen up. John Digweed will be in town for a one-night only gig at Zouk come Saturday. A name often seen beside that of
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    • Streats life
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        Lock icon Spare a thought for the less fortunate
        334 24 Guess his job, win a Swatch! flu John Chua 33 Gets on MRT at: Buona Vista Gets off at: Eunos lam... A rather health-conscious person who takes exercise seriously. I try to go to the gym three times a week. I’m also flexible,
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    • easyStreats sports
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        Lock icon The elite eight fight for gold
        227 29 Reuters In the Quarters, US meets J opan, Brazil takes on Cameroon Italy goes °ut against Spain and Chile meets Nigeria BRISBANE Huge attendances, thrilling matches and a glimpse of some precocious young talent highlighted the opening round of the Olympic soccer tournament, which
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        Lock icon Gunners' big scare
        426 29 Reuters The English side recovers from 0-2 down Qgainstthe 10-man team from Ukraine to win 3-2 LONDON Lazio and Rangers asserted their authority in the Champions League on Wednesday but the Gunners were given the fright of their lives by 300-1 outsiders Shakhtar Donetsk. The English side
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        Lock icon Garboesque Gazelle
        152 29 -AFP SYDNEY Believers in re-incar-nation have good reason to see French athlete Marie-Jose Perec as proof they are right with her remarkably good impression of the reclusive late great Swedish actress Greta Garbo. For 10 days, the Guadeloupeborn triple Olympic champion was holed up in a Sydney hotel
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        Lock icon S'pore police quiz Perec, boyfriend
        235 30 They were questioned over an airport assault on a television cameraman at Sydney airport Reuters SYDNEY Olympic champion Marie-Jose Perec, fleeing the Sydney Games, and her fiance were questioned by police in Singapore yesterday for 11 hours over an airport assault on a television cameraman,
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        Lock icon Time for Mighty M's
        255 30 Marion, Maurice and Michael will make appearances to day to kick start the athletics programme AP SYDNEY In the big stadium that has stood empty in the middle of the action at Olympic Park for a week, US sprinter Marion Jones will launch a quest so
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        Lock icon Day of the double gold
        358 31 AP Lenny Krayzelburg and Inge de Bruijn claim their second gold medals with relative ease SYDNEY US swimmer Lenny Krayzelburg, who emigrated from Ukraine 11 years ago, and Dutchwoman Inge de Bruijn both won their second Olympic gold medals in the pool yesterday. Krayzelburg won
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        Lock icon MEDALS TALLY
        222 31 G S B T USA 11 10 10 31 Australia 8 9 8 25 China 8 4 7 19 France 7 9 4 20 Italy 7 2 9 18 Netherlands 6 2 2 10 Russia 4 8 8 20 Japan 4 3 18 Romania 4 2 4 10
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        Lock icon Will Popov win 50m gold?
        174 31 SYDNEY American Gary Hall posted the fastest semi-final time in the 50 metres freestyle yesterday. Hall, bronze medallist behind Pieter van den Hoogenband and Alexander Popov in Wednesday’s 100 metres freestyle final, clocked 22.075ec to win the first semifinal from fellow American Anthony Ervin (22.13).
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          Lock icon Bailey has flu, may pull out
          104 31 AP SYDNEY Canada’s Donovan Bailey, (right) who set a world record while winning the 1996 gold medal in the 100 m, is battling flu-like symptoms but still hopes to begin defence of his title. “I just spoke with Donovan a few minutes ago. He’s
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          56 31 -AP SYDNEY -Top -seeded Lindsay Davenport is out of the tennis singles event after failing to take the court for her second round match with Rossana de los Rios of Paraguay due to a sprained left foot. She has been struggling with the injury picked up in the
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          52 31 -AFP SYDNEY lan Thorpe, whose three golds have electrified the host nation, has an upper respiratory infection, an Australian swimming spokesman said yesterday. “He’s got a bit of a sniffle,” lan Hanson said. “He was in training this morning. It’s nothing he wants to use as an
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